Pauline Boty: life and works - in pictures

Pauline Boty was a founder of the British pop art movement and Britain's most notable female pop art painter. She died aged 28 in 1966 and her name has largely been forgotten outside the art world. Now exhibitions at the
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, the
National Portrait Gallery and the
Mach Schau gallery are set to bring her and her work to a wider audience

In 1962, graphic designer and photographer John Aston was commissioned to take pictures of pop artist and aspiring actress Pauline Boty. A small number were published in Men Only in March 1963 with text by Cedric French. They were taken in Pauline's flat in West London.This and many other photographs of Boty can be seen at Mach Schau gallery, 1.12 Kingly Court, London W1 from 1st June 2013

Pauline Boty in her studio in 1964 with her now missing painting Scandal '63This image can be seen in the exhibition 'Scandal ’63: The fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo Affair' which runs from 30 April until 15 September 2013, at the National Portrait Gallery, London, Room 32